Posted by 49er on November 9, 2011, at 5:56:15
In reply to Re: Anxiety or Comorbid depression Linked to Insomnia » 49er, posted by floatingbridge on November 8, 2011, at 5:21:18
Thanks FB for your kind words and understanding. Many times, when I am tired, I worry about how I come across in a post.
I don't want to celebrate prematurely but I felt like I got better sleep from my first night using the dehumidifer.
No, you're not being picky and I totally understand where you are coming from. Suffering is suffering no matter what the source.
My concern though is if the depression is from a physical cause or misdiagnosed, that could be very dangerous to someone's health.
Yeah, it is definitely insulting to psychpathologize something as psychological when that might not necessarily be the case.
That is diagnosis anchoring in the worst form possible.
> Hey 49er,
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> If that was a rant, it was a very coherent one. I am very sorry about your ongoing sinusitis. A good friend has it, and I know from him how much it impacts his life on a daily basis.
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> I am being picky here, so bear with me. I would posit that many who are depressed or anxious are suffering from physical ailments that are not always psychological in origin. I do not draw a firm line between psychologically based
> depression and somatically based depression. This are ongoing thoughts for myself. The researchers who ran the quoted study may have lumped depression and anxiety into the merely psychological, and that would be a questionable assumption.
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> That you suffer from a physical ailment that some may attempt to psyhcologize, I imagine that could be frustrating
> and even insulting.
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